Slide and negative film scanning.

AirClix digitizes using one of the best Nikon film scanners available. The equipment, and scanning service protocol ensures quality scans. Slides are captured in JPG, TIFF or RAW format and are perfect for archiving, printing, sharing online or presenting at family events.

Our film scanning procedure and details

Great care is given to protect your photography before, during and after scanning. All film is handled with cotton gloves. Every effort is made to remove dust from your film prior to scanning with compressed air or soft camel’s hair brush.

Another complete set of your scans as “web friendly” image file available on request

Each image file is inspected for correct color balance after auto color is applied. Sometimes manual color correction is required to provide the best color balance.

Kodachrome

Kodak Kodachrome slides were so common and special that Nikon included a special scanning mode with the Nikon CoolScan 5000. For best possible images, Kodachrome slides are always captured using the Kodachrome scanning mode

Slide formats

Most slides are in a 2 x 2" holder. The size of film varies from 13 x 17mm to the 127 Super slides (1.9 x 1.9"). Call if you need help to identify your slides.

Rest assured that 100% of the film area will be captured.

Film scanning

Typically, negative and slide scans produce more detail and are sharper than photographs.

A 35mm negative scanned at 4000 dpi will result in a resolution equal to 5637 x 3654 pixels yielding quality enlargements up to 18 x 12″.

Medium format

Older photographic films are often “medium format.” Due to their size and age, extra care and cleaning is required.

Usually, a few minutes of image editing to reduce or eliminate blemishes, specs or scratches from the final image is required.